Why We’re Starving for Real Rooms

The older I get, the more convinced I become that most adults are wildly lonely.

Not “alone,” necessarily. Just disconnected.

We know how to perform, produce, reply to emails, optimize calendars, multitask, and say “LOL” while actively having a nervous breakdown in a Target parking lot... but we’ve gotten very bad at belonging to each other.

And honestly? I don’t think more content is fixing that.

I think people are starving for actual rooms.

Rooms where:

• People laugh out loud

• People loosen up and exhale

• People stop performing quite so hard

• People recognize themselves in each other

That’s probably why live storytelling and comedy have started meaning so much to me. Because underneath the comedy, something else keeps happening.

People stay afterward. They talk. They tell me stories. They say things like: “I thought I was the only one who felt like that.”

And every time it happens, I think: Oh. Maybe this is the real thing I’m building. Not just performances, and not just jokes—but rooms where exhausted humans get to drop the facade for an hour.

That’s what these live shows are all about: small rooms, snack bars in the back, and a bunch of over-functioning adults laughing harder than they expected to.

And honestly? I’d love for you to be in one of those rooms while this whole thing is still becoming itself.

— Sheila